“To leaf through the lawn” is a project based on the idea of having the possibility
of leafing through a lawn as it was a book. The verb “ to leaf through” itself has got
inside the idea of “leaf” that suggests us the existence of a tight bond between these
two elements: the leaf and the paper. In this case (up!) refers to the pop-ups, lively
books that, with a paper fold technique, produce a 3D image when they are opened.
In my work the performance is different because the uplift is not generated by the
opening of two pages, but the effect is pretty similar. The blades of the picture of
a lawn have been cut and lifted as to become a real lawn once again. Cutting and
removing the outlines are cognitive acts, they permit to explore a mantle of grass
reproduced in natural size and to find out all the small elements which are inside.
Furthermore the two photographs that I used are specular and that means that they
produce a palindrome and can be explored from both directions. So, it is like I found
myself in need of unsticking two papers that have been stuck to each other and, so
doing, I produced a regular and double tear.